Word: armenias
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...wintry sun sinks, Armenia's capital takes on the eerie cast of a medieval town under siege. Life in Yerevan has reeled backward, like a grainy black-and-white film, toward a barbaric era of ethnic and religious war -- an apocalyptic time when death becomes humdrum, the threat of disease is ever present, and nothing matters but daily, primal survival...
...Christian and Muslim worlds, has been contested territory for centuries. The & Armenians survived the genocidal massacre of a million and a half of their people in 1915 by the Turks. In 1988 an earthquake killed 25,000 and left tens of thousands homeless. At about the same time, Armenia became embroiled in an undeclared war with neighboring Muslim Azerbaijan over the Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh. The fighting has claimed 2,500 lives so far, and no settlement is in sight. On both sides the dispute has fired the same kind of atavistic enmity that is tearing apart other former...
...conflict escalated, the Azeris imposed a blockade on Armenia, cutting off oil and gas lines. A crucial gas pipeline in Georgia, the neighbor to the north -- where minority unrest also sputters unchecked -- was blown up this month for the third time, reducing the flow of gas to a trickle. Loans from Russia and some international aid that managed to bypass the blockade have saved Armenia from total collapse, but because of the power shortage only six of 400 factories are operating...
Demetrios G. Kafkas, second vice president of the Hellenic American Society, said the protesters wanted to expose the "ethnic cleansing of Kurds in Turkey" and to stop the Turkish economic blockade of Armenia. But Ozal, when confronted with the Armenian issue, said, "We are not going to stop humanitarian aid to Armenia...
...through 1994 projected [TMFONT 1 d #666666 d {Sources: PlanEcon; U.S. State Dept.}]CAPTION: ARMENIA AZERBAIJAN BELARUS ESTONIA GEORGIA KAZAKHSTAN KYRGYZSTAN LATVIA LITHUANIA MOLDOVA RUSSIA TAJIKISTAN TURKMENISTAN UKRAINE UZBEKISTAN